RICHARDSON, DUCK & COMPANY, THORNABY

Name GIRDLENESS
Type Cargo steamship
Yard Number 372
Launched 19/04/1890
Completed 05/1890
Off. Number 98089
Engine builder Blair & Co., Stockton-on-Tees
Engine type T 3 cyl.
GRT 1852
Length (feet) 270
Beam (feet) 37.1
First owner Farrar, Groves & Co., London.
   
History 1904 Fargrove Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. (Farrar, Groves & Co.), London
  1904 FLINDT, Flindt, Drost & Co., Copenhagen.
  1913 ORION, A/S Dampsk. Selsk. Orion (C. P. Jensen), Copenhagen.
   
Fate 04/061917 Torpedoed by U 71 N. of the Shetlands at 62.14N, 01.02E on voyage Kallundborg to Halifax in ballast.

For a photo as FLINDT see the U Boat website

Use browser to return to this builder's yardlist

Return to all builders main index